Sunday, January 20, 2008

Are you Man or Girl?

There are about 10,000,000,000,000,000,000 insects on earth at any given moment.
Seriously, for every one of us, there are 1.5 billion bugs.
But some of them are so horrifying, just one is too many.
Are you a person that thinks you're "tough badass," perhaps?
You be screaming like a "Little Girl" after experiencing becoming a man
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Bullet Ant (Paraponera clavata)
From: Rainforest's from Nicaragua to Paraguay
Why you must fear it: It's a full inch long, it lives in trees and thus can and will fall on you to scare you away from its hive--the one you didn't know was there, because it's in a tree. Before it does this, it shrieks at you. It's called a Bullet Ant because its 'unusually severe' sting feels like getting shot.

Some of the indigenous peoples of the area use Bullet Ants as part of this initiation-to-manhood ceremony that they do. You know the kind we mean, with us it's like, a big party and your relatives give you money and everyone loves you and is so proud of you? Yeah with them, it's these special leaf sleeves with hundreds of bullet ants woven into them, stingers-inwards. They put them on and are immediately stung by, and this is important, hundreds of Bullet Ants woven into the sleeves, stingers-inward.


The goal is to leave them on for 10 minutes, after which their arms are stiff, useless lengths of twisting agony, their bodies wracked with uncontrollable spasms for days. And in order to be actually pass the ordeal and become a man, they have to do it 20 times.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Guess what? I'll stay a boy!